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After convicted killer dies, police plead for help finding clues in central Maine woman’s death
By centralmaine.com- Amy Calder
Published: 06/29/2017

A woman’s remains could still be at the bottom of a water well in central Maine, 41 years after possibly being dumped there by her then-boyfriend, convicted killer Albert P. Cochran, Maine State Police said Wednesday.

Cochran, 79, died Tuesday in a Rockport hospital while serving a life sentence for murdering and raping Janet Baxter of Oakland in 1976 — a different woman.

On Wednesday, police asked the public for help in finding the well in the Smithfield area that might contain the remains of Pauline Rourke — Cochran’s girlfriend, with whom he lived off Route 139 in Fairfield Center and who disappeared two weeks after Baxter’s death and was never found.

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